He has taken an active part in several organizations engaged with peace in the Basque Country and against terrorism and Basque nationalism, such as Movimiento por la Paz y la No Violencia, Gesto por la Paz, Foro Ermua, and currently ¡Basta Ya!

In November 2012 he was awarded the prestigious Octavio Paz Prize of Poetry and Essay.[4]

He recently founded a new political party called Unión, progreso y democracia (Union, Progress and Democracy) with former socialists MP Rosa Díez, Albert Boadella and Mario Vargas Llosa in order to oppose different nationalist movements in Spanish mainstream politics.[5][6] Critics have pointed out that their political outlook seems to be dominated by a strong Spanish nationalist ideology itself.